The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 12, 1900, Page 19

THE SUNDAY CALL. Hard Work and Romance That Have Gone Hand in Hand Even to the Sewing of a Jumper Pocket Resulting n a Happy Wedding. what 4 2 wan fortune. Prese: The ambitious girls were go- Among them was a pale, ¥ the machines began to & guess we ca s d nothing to say and dldn't am power or ver st. She, too, had difficulty r pockets. o she is."" said the talka- s E r we can't make her out. He w o, nobo Seems to be =s she thinks she's too 3 - » s e to make overalls.” o rom D Mat,” sald a pleasant-faced girl next t : don’t know what you're She may have troubles of fain’t any one's business if to keep to herself. Mayb ad bad luck. I didn't alwa ¢ M fternoon I gathered A tag was given ozen pleces. 1 had finished pockets and had started in for a change. They were dozen and I could turn y fast. I was turning them arly fast about 8 o'clock when happened. There was -rr-r and a spinning omething seemed to have gone h the machine. I had broken heel band and another needle, y-five cents more to the account and the needls per —“APERIENCES AS A WORKER \ MADE A PAIR N AN OVERALL FACTORY Nan Byxbee Writes of Those Who Toil With the Sewing Machine. from the foothills, and he kept thinking about that letter a lot. One day he dress- ed up In his best clothes and took the train for San Francisco and sought out the address. He knocked timidly at the door and asked for little Ettie Gann. “I'm her,” sald the neat little girl who opened the door. “Who're you?" “I have come about the letter,” he answered, handing the scrawl to her. “I bought the overalle.” “Oh,” sald Ettle, jumping up and down and clapping her hands together. Then she Invited him finto the tidy lttle kitchen, and when came home thare was a splendid supper on the table. The young man had got lots of things from the grocery and butcher shop and bakery. and he and Ettle had made the supper. It was not a bit awkward after Ettle had explained and been forgiven. Now Ada i mistress of a nice little cov y home, and Ettle trudges off to school every morning, very happy over her match- making, and wearing a large pink sun- bonnet. It was a very pretty little story tening to it cost me twenty cents. I had not controlled the power right and h broken the little wheel band. How very large a pair of overalls are any way! I sewed away Industriously and slowly garment began to evol they were done them up and surveyed them Behold, I had made a pa With their two rows of yellow stitching e, down the side, twisting graee- BEHOLD,1 HAD OF OVERALLS. but lis- it is tr — TRE LARGE BELT HAD BROKEN. ed the ten cents’ worth I ‘had en. Mr. Martin put another band on for me and 1 went on. At half-past 5 the hist w. It was time to go home. I ur the blue st up. My w Next morning at 8 I was at the other factory. There time r of overalls : hwhaved nicely and I p were laughing @ sald one. "1 just hat letter 1 pu. in a pocket t stmas. He's a young fellow on fa:m away over in A#zona. .1 think placing lette alls—cheering mi owners “Do you remember the Big Sw ay he sald ‘Ay ben kett from t y Miss Yosle ter in that I laak toe se ork—ever trie nswered her she confided. work in sto tire themse! no one cou wouidn't they dom't k ¥ 1cky to get 4 place—and g ga up t and made out a little p e Pyl e ghty pigps ‘ i ? account of my s work, as follow gothe Lo Ieorgeiown, ¢ 14 - g 2 ) 4 o ; th a1 Coming back to- 1 look for 2 vooman to keep my house. I'll tell you,” she spered, leaning her . dozen pockets, at 4 cents bad about the, nesdien. b 1 ban got married.” pretty ne, “girls ean work = n straps, at nts. morrow? . < b © 1y here without ha > g0 to F h din: en straps, at ts. .. Yes: and Kittle's cowboy. Kit nearly 1ete FACRORE BEFINE o0, tal 6 needles broken, at 3 for One big wheel band ... Outside there was a great exodus of girls. They had come from all over the building in the different departments. There were hundreds of them, making he fell dead when w the guns in his bejt and the bow nife. What a neck- tie he did have! And he'd been cele- brating—hadn’t he, Kit?" I ate an apple tart The afternoon work began and the ma- chines rattled on. Down the long line of machines big biue overalls were pouring out from behind and every one working noise encugh for so many magples. o 5 - v va " . e girls are Total “Hi there, Jennle,” called one girl, st Bl oy s with, & will. -1 caught. the t of the g “come on downtc with me before 6. 1 K red - 8.1 b e P € thing and sewed mad) was m enough to-day to buy that pink next street, and was afraid he’d come crowding as many st to the minute i > back any minute. I sat at the window as she with ist—hurry up or the store will be Goodness graclous!” remarked another, scared to death all afternoon.” But there had been one real romance. 1t was a small sister that caused it. time for ninety cents to the dozen. At five minutes to 5 fifth pair of overal while to commence I had made ae p fimarense ; wrists ache! 3 = - gy Atel i m,‘.;hfu b‘:"fhe‘ ::,"ih’,lnifl fo the young man that buys the over- Jiis cenmts: There was the item of the we X h “Ma g 3 che ™ i si~: I hope you broken band, 20 cents, leaving me a bal- d gh b n(ylm“n:v k- ckev. but my wrists do alme. and she and good, andq ance of 17% cents. Not very much, it is thing fa inquired Mr. dieappeared into the crowd, flipping her % T 4 true, 1 thought, as I presented my tags at Be x musin't nds in the air. NOON HOUR will coma and fall in love with my sister; ¥ inqow, but it is 11% cents better than Y « o quite well. You ing to. work to-morrow?” asked a she is so good and works so hard all day yesterday, and if I kept on, well, thers ot Somipaty Mt Ry quiet littie crsatuss Desifie me. “Come and WAS i to make cur bread & butter. I am shure would be no limit to the money I might ) e o g AR a gt X s b it G 2 if you knew my sister you would want make! a morrow and stay with it. You're waik with me. You are getting on fine, I QUITE A to marry her. I will put this in the over- The experlenced girls were jingling their ht.”” t with answered the girl all you bet, we don’t. the rest to get pald, and > ““boss” proper. the damages duc the company. “Yes, here could much work as she you are,” said the cashier, tossing out a was the architect of her own nickel and & penny, “that's right. Too watched you. But I tell you, you can meke more money at the other factory— I said 1 believed 1 would, and left her at the cormer. She went off down the street swinging her lunch basket with a { JOLLY o= alls pockett that she makes when I go to the factory, and if you ain't a Swede like “ETTIE GANN, 7—Harrison strest, S. F." The young man was not a fwede, “like Josie got,"” but a very nice young farmer dollars and extra fifty-cent pleces In an and they ail had some- ¥ about the speed I would thing kind to stick to string we came my turn I presented my string work don’t pay so well. I'm going ON : 2 > Martir, fodest little bunch of tags, representing over to-morrow. You better, too, as you E. i:’::—:,‘;‘.:rm¥:e:|us;?:od:( ::l: ur;m ankd ?52‘;‘“\:;",.‘2132".,,’,;',5;""‘[“\3;.,‘:‘,?,‘,‘,‘,1 ‘;,2;; cl sum of forty-on poke o s " v her. Th work, T ¢ h h I the sum of forty-one cents, and spoke of are just starting in. Thd 1 can go to seool. Yours truly. " In search of work. The factory girl Is not &t all the color she is painted. Good luck be with her, and may the number of over- all tags to her credit ever grow larger. NAN BYXBER